I am an enthusiastic professional, whose education has been a big part of my life and whose peers, professors, and administration have learned to trust and respect. Currently, I am looking to start my career in an environment I am interested to grow professionally and this environment is the education field. The college setting has been part of my everyday basis and it is a place I feel extremely comfortable and I would love to continue being part of it. Since I enrolled in a university,... ... More

"Writing and Reading Specialist, Essay writing for Common Application"

My experience includes:
Nine years teaching middle school Literacy.
Teaching Columbia University Reading and Writing workshop. I have taught students of all ability levels, students with IEPs, ESL and ELL students.
Participated in the â€œMaking a Differenceâ€ reading recovery program.
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Dear Students and Parents, my name is Elizabeth Ives, and I have degrees in both art (my BFA from the School at the Art Institute of Chicago) and pre-modern history (MA from Villanova University). I have a passion for both, with a special interest fashion history. I have found that history is often seen as a boring subject made up of names and dates, people you have a limited connection to, and things that seem very far away. Indeed some course work does make history seem that way. During... ... More

I recently taught writing and professional communications to undergraduate students in engineering at McGill University in Montreal. My students came from all over the world, and many spoke English as a second language.
My approach to that course was to give students the basics in simple rhetoric so they could structure their written work with confidence. The writing assignments were varied and I assigned readings from both fiction and non-fiction to give the students at least a minimal... ... More